Trans-Status Subjects

by Sarker, Sonita; De, Esha Niyogi; Levine, Philippa (CON); Perera, Nihal (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822329923
• ISBN10: 0822329921
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This valuable anthology gathers together feminist perspectives on gender, postcolonial critique, and critiques of Western modernity, and the considerable work on global capitalism and transnationalism. The work is theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich, intervening in the discussions of women, colonial and neocolonial modernity, and globalization with respect to South Asian and Southeast Asian women and locales."--Lisa Lowe, author of "Immigrant Acts"

Author Biography

Sonita Sarker is Chair and Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of English at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota Esha Niyogi de teaches English and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Marking Times and Territories	1	(30)
Sonita Sarker
Esha Niyogi De
I FIGURING GENDERS IN THE COLONY AND NATION: NATIVE AND FOREIGN
Designing Woman, Designing North Borneo	31	(20)
Susan Morgan
The Cordon Sanitaire: Mobility and Space in the Regulation of Colonial Prostitution	51	(16)
Philippa Levine
Feminizing the City: Gender and Space in Colonial Colombo	67	(21)
Nihal Perera
Failure of the Imaginary: Gendered Excess of the Indonesian Nation	88	(20)
Sylvia Tiwon
Gender, Paradoxical Space, and Critical Spectatorship in Vietnamese Film: The Works of Dang Nhat Minh	108	(21)
Kathryn McMahon
II TRANSPORTING GENDERS BETWEEN THE VILLAGE AND CITY: REPRESENTATIONS AND RESISTANCES
Traveling High and Low: Verticality, Social Position, and the Making of Pahari Genders	129	(18)
Karen K. Gaul
Nurturing, Gender Ideologies, and Bangkok's Foodscape	147	(20)
Gisele Yasmeen
Place and Displacement: Figuring the Thai Village in an Age of Rural Development	167	(22)
Andrew McRae
The City between the Global State: Architecture and the People in Singapore's Gendered Imaginations	189	(24)
Esha Niyogi De
III GENDERING LOCAL-GLOBAL CIRCUITS: LABOR, CAPITAL, AND SUBJECTS OF SOCIAL CHANGE
South Asian Women in the Gulf: Families and Futures Reconfigured	213	(19)
Karen Leonard
Diasporic Alienness and Belonging: Selected Indian-American Cultural Expressions	232	(17)
Ketu H. Katrak
Jewish Diaspora through Colonial Spaces: Negotiating Identity and Forging Community	249	(18)
Jael Silliman
Unruly Subjects: Cornelia Sorabji and Ravinder Randhawa	267	(22)
Sonita Sarker
Immigrant Dreams and Nightmares: South Asian Domestic Workers in North America in a Time of Global Mobility	289	(20)
Anannya Bhattacharjee
Bibliography	309	(24)
Contributors	333	(2)
Index	335